September2006

Today, lots of Google news. There was a PageRank Update – yea, I jumped from a PR0 to a PR6. Google will be updating the query stats section every Monday now. Google released a new Google Reader, very good job. Also, Google’s Picasa enabled sharing. Ask.com is releasing a new PPC platform this Monday. Microsoft’s

If you sign up for a Google Checkout Account through my affiliate URL then I get paid, so sign up! I was just accepted to the Google Checkout Merchant Referral Program. For the next 12 months, you will receive financial bonuses for referring merchants to Google Checkout. For every merchant you refer that processes at

I have been saving a few stories to blog about, and these seemed appropriate for the weekend. WebMD named one recent article 26% of Teens Drive Drunk or on Drugs and then a few days later wrote an other article named Teen Drinking, Drugs: Parents Unaware. More than one in four teens who drive say

I just posted a new job opening at RustyBrick. We are looking for one HTML / CSS / XHTML Developer at the moment and as many top notch Advanced PHP/MySQL Engineer as possible. 🙂 One big issue for many is the huge requirement that is must be on site! Yes, in the main RB offices,

Many of you know I have been messing with Google Checkout buttons, and even got an all star donation from Matt Cutts, but I am sad to hear that I was suspended by Google Checkout. Technically, I can still accept payments, but I cannot place the “Google Checkout Badge” on my RustyBrick AdWords ads. Suspended

Fun day today in search. Matt Cutts has agreed to come on to the Search Pulse, here and there to answer questions. Yahoo! Search Marketing launched in India. Germany has a huge 150+ foot bug attacking it, according to Google Maps. Yahoo! bought a 6 month old remixing startup named Jumpcut. Google won’t give Brazil

Rocking Horse Originally uploaded by Brandon Vrosh. I heard this on the radio in the AM and now I found a NY Post article showing how The New York City Council has changed an old law that didn’t allow the sale of horses 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said; “Laws

Rocking Horse Originally uploaded by Brandon Vrosh. I heard this on the radio in the AM and now I found a NY Post article showing how The New York City Council has changed an old law that didn’t allow the sale of horses 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said; “Laws

Yesterday I posted an entry named I’m a Google Checkout Merchant – Donate To Me, I honestly didn’t think people would donate – but one person I can name by name, has donated. Matt Cutts from Google has donated me a whole $16. He was the first one to send me a payment via Google

A week ago, Ask.com sent me schwag, part of that was a Timbuk2 Commute bag, branded for Ask.com. It is an awesome laptop bag, really is. So much so, I am strongly considering getting about fifty of them branded for RustyBrick. Timbuk2 has a Corporate Sales Program, so I contacted them. It will basically cost